anytime you're ready

anytime you're ready

A phrase that encourages the listener to take or start a course of action. A: "Can I start the meeting now?" B: "Sure, anytime you're ready."
See also: anytime, ready
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Anytime you are ready,

 and Anytime you're ready.
a phrase indicating that the speaker is waiting for the person spoken to to make the appropriate move or action. Mary: I think it's about time to go. Bill: Anytime you're ready. Surgeon: Shall we begin the operation?Nurse: Anytime you're ready, Doctor.
See also: anytime, ready
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • Anytime you are ready
  • head start
  • a head start
  • clean sheet
  • clean slate
  • a clean sheet
  • a clean sheet/slate
  • off to a bad start
  • start off on the right foot
  • start off on the right foot, to
References in periodicals archive
His wife, irritated by her husband's lack of discretion, shouts back, "Anytime you're ready, father of four!"
Asked what Dave felt about her baby plans, she replied: "He said, 'Anytime you're ready'."
And when Sean Penn bumped into Mallick a while back, he said: "Anytime you're ready to make a movie, call me.